Hi all.
I have attached two videos (these are 5 second clips of the introduction of a file that would otherwise be copyrighted – I take the five second clips to be fair use given that they contain no actual content, just an introductory title card).
The first will cause a reliable hard crash (e.g. file refuses to play, Plex logo comes up, Plex application restarts) on the nVidia Shield TV player application, and presumably on other Android TV players. The second will work fine.
The difference is that the first has several embedded c608 closed caption layers. I don’t really know much about c608, it seems to be a video format for top of screen closed captions. If I transparently remux the file, using ffmpeg -bsf:v "filter_units=remove_types=6" on the file – this is the particularly arcane way you can delete these c608 closed captions because they aren’t treated as normal subtitle streams – you get the second file, and it plays fine on Plex.
Both files play fine on Plex on Windows. I didn’t test any other platforms.
I don’t really care about c608 support. I just want the c608 streams to be ignored rather than cause a hard crash.
The upload zip is about 40KB, with the constituent files being 50KB each. I tried to upload the videos without zipping them, but the forum only allows certain extensions. And again, I think the five second clips from the introduction should be sufficient to alleviate fair use concerns.
Pilots.zip (38.1 KB)
